I am not sure about anywhere but Kinser but did anyone recieve the email about kids not being able to play in the hallways? I did not receive it but I was curious as to what it said. Thanks! 

GREAT...kids shouldn't be allowed to play in the tower hallways! 

My daughter plays in the hallway with her friends. Until they want to offer me another option with a yard, she will continue to be allowed to do so.... 

My daughter plays in the hallway with her friends. Until they want to offer me another option with a yard, she will continue to be allowed to do so....

Aren't there playgrounds at most towers? 

Culp, don't you have a playgrounds right outside your buildings? 

Yup, they work great in the rainy season, and I love turning the back light on so they can play, ohh wait... 

Why can't they play in the house? I'm just confused, I've only been in a tower once, and it would seem to me, they'd have more fun in the home, where their things are, not in a hallway where they disturb other people that may be on a different shift than your family. 

And please don't try to compare a yard to a public playground... 

Yup, they work great in the rainy season, and I love turning the back light on so they can play, ohh wait...
Until they want to offer me another option with a yard, she will continue to be allowed to do so....

This is kind of a moot point then. You don't want her going to the playground during the "rainy" season, but you'd let her play in the yard? Same thing if you ask me. 

She never, and I repeat never leave her toys in the hall. I am pretty sure that everyone who lives on our floor (all 4 families) kids play together out there, so it isn't so much of a problem with the neighbors.

If it is, they sure haven't ever said anything to me or my daughter about it bothering them.

I don't know why they would rather play in the hall, they are kids, they're weird. we prop the door open when she is out there, not like she is unattended.... 

What is the big deal with them playing in the hallways? I know all the neighbor kids come out and play together. They are supervised and it is just fine. Works great when it is rainy, too hot or during a typhoon when your stuck inside. 

I only speak for the kids on my level as I do not know how the others act or what they do. I know almost every level lets the kids come out and play. 

I'll put it like this, my daughter is 6, I would think she is old enough to play in the yard by herself.

However, my daughter being 6 is not old enough to walk down to the play ground and play by herself.

So every time we want to go to the park it become more of an ordeal w/ the 3 year old, than her just running into the back yard if my daughter wants to play.

It is a stop what the wife or I am doing at the moment, and go to the park...

We go to the park, don't get me wrong, but it isn't convenient at all.

Unless you have lived in a house, and then in the towers you probably don't see where I'm coming from. 

I know it is easier to play in the hallway when their is so many kids then these tiny living spaces. They also like to ride their scooters out there. 

What is the big deal with them playing in the hallways?


Okay so we use to live in the towers so I can speak from experience on this. The kids that would play on our floor were loud, made a mess and were unsupervised 99% of the time.
Yes, you may be the exception and actually supervise your children, however many do not!
Even though it is a tower I still took pride where I lived. It was a pure embarrassment to have people come and visit and have to walk into our hall and see that thrashed mess (again you may be the exception).
And yes, I do have kids and no they never played in the halls. I would take my kids to the park or playground or "gasp" they would play indoors. Oh and if it rained....they would again "gasp" play in our apartment. I could even tolerate them playing in the halls on occasion but here's a new concept to some parent's (STOP) being lazy and take your kids outside to play! Also "propping" the door open with a shoe is not supervision. 

So, just so I am clear on this, how much more "supervision" does my 6 year old need, can she play in her room by herself? Cause where I am, in reference to the hallway is closer than to her room?

You hold your kids hand 24 hours a day? Cause unless you do, apparently you're not supervising them... 

I get it Culp. That's why we moved from an apt to a house. My kids can play outside and I can run in and check on dinner, etc. It's much easier that way, and they have a lot more outside time. 

I'm going to just close on this subject and say thank goodness I don't live in the tower anymore. 

y kids can play outside and I can run in and check on dinner, etc. It's much easier that way, and they have a lot more outside time.

This, but I guess I'm lazy... 

I get it Culp.


Do you have other peoples kids coloring on the walls or door or you door? Do you walk over food and spilled juice to get into your apartment? Do you have to deal with someone else's 1 year old, still in a diaper left unattended (with the door closed) that had taken his poopy diaper off and it's all over the hallway? 

SFC what your describing is way, way, offbase to what, I assume,most tower hallways are probably like.

Yours might of been crazy like that, but the biggest mess you see in our hallways are the damn stripes papers the paper carriers put in front of the empty apartments... 

they stopped bringing me the paper every weekend after i left the box by the door, that had about 30 of them in there. 

I have been in some that are very clean, ours however was a mess. It was sad and so bad that we would "try" to clean it up before the mamasan would come. She certainly didn't need to deal with that mess. 

That seems pretty extreme SFC-I would be pissed too.

No, we never had that issue, but we lived in a 1apt per floor building. If we had had hallways, I imagine the people that we were neighbors with would have been very respectful and also responsible about kids playing in the hallways. 

where their things are, not in a hallway where they disturb other people that may be on a different shift than your family.


And this! 

where their things are, not in a hallway where they disturb other people that may be on a different shift than your family.


I don't know about the houses here, but last time we lived on-base, we could hear kids in the house next door (multiplex) as well as out on the playground, etc. 

I would prefer my neighbor's keep their screaming kids in the house. I like quiet when I'm watching TV! Actually, I would more prefer them to not tie their dog outside to let him bark for hours on end. That's actually more annoying. 

I can't hear any of my neighbors to the left and right, but the people who live above me are a family of elephants or wear tap shoes and franken boots.... 

I do not like the kids playing in the hall. I do not consider older children chatting in the hallway playing though. I have no problem with my older children sitting out by the door chatting or whatever it is they do. But they do it quietly. I think of "play" as loud playground behavior.
I do have a problem with little kids out there. I never let my younger child play in the hall. He can play in the house or I can take him to the park. Children out there are disruptive. They throw balls that ram into the door, scream, etc. Ive seen a couple of times a kid almost run over someone flying around the hall on a scooter.
If my older ones are out there and a bunch of loud kids come out, mine come in. I don't want any guilt by association.
And I have knocked on a door to tell a parent that their kids need to go inside bc of the 10 plus min of continuous screaming. Funny thing, that mother said that the one screaming wasn't even hers lol. Figures. The tiniest one out there screaming is some ladies who didn't even have her door open for me to approach her. I have seen kids playing by the elevators pressing the buttons. I hate to think that this little girl would press a button, get on the elevator and get lost. The mother was no where. And the woman I spoke with was not in charge of watching her. It was ridiculous.